Interesting and Noteworthy Findings From MICS Analyses

Implications For The Cross Cultural Study Of Parenting And Child Development

Andy Grogan-Kaylor
2022-02-16

Data

The findings below are drawn from studies using the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) conducted by UNICEF. Data include more than 200,000 families from a diverse sample of approximately 60 Low and Middle Income (LMICS) around the world.

Figure 1: Countries in MICS

Analysis

The statistical methods employed in this work consist of various forms of multilevel models which are able to synthesize results across samples from multiple sources. Thus these findings are applicable to a diverse variety of cultures and contexts from around the globe.

Findings

Parenting and Child Outcomes Across Countries

When studied in global context, across a diverse group of Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), these results have important implications for reducing violence against children, for improving family and child well-being, and for the cross-cultural study of parenting and child development (particularly the origins of aggression and antisocial behavior):

Put more succinctly, there are differences in the disciplinary methods employed by parents–and a modest percentage of these differences are attributable to the country in which parents live–but the effects of various forms of discipline are remarkably consistent.

Psychological Aggression

Other Forms Of Discipline

Child Physical Abuse

Grogan-Kaylor, Andrew, Berenice Castillo, Garrett T Pace, Kaitlin P Ward, Julie Ma, Shawna J Lee, and Heather Knauer. 2021. Global perspectives on physical and nonphysical discipline: A Bayesian multilevel analysis.” International Journal of Behavioral Development, January, 0165025420981642. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025420981642.
Ma, Julie, Andrew C. Grogan-Kaylor, Shawna J. Lee, Garrett T. Pace, and Kaitlin P. Ward. n.d. Globally, What Would Happen If We Eliminated Spanking?
Pace, Garrett T., Shawna J. Lee, and Andrew Grogan-Kaylor. 2019. Spanking and young children’s socioemotional development in low- and middle-income countries.” Child Abuse and Neglect 88: 84–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.11.003.
Ward, Kaitlin P., Andrew C. Grogan-Kaylor, Garrett T. Pace, Jorge Cuartas, and Shawna J. Lee. 2021a. A Multilevel Ecological Analysis of the Predictors of Spanking Across 65 Countries.” BMJ Open 11 (e046075). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046075.
Ward, Kaitlin P, Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, Julie Ma, Garrett T Pace, and Shawna J Lee. 2021b. “Associations Between 11 Parental Discipline Behaviors and Child Outcomes Across 60 Countries.” PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/f5t8x.
Ward, Kaitlin P., Shawna J. Lee, Andrew C. Grogan-Kaylor, Julie Ma, and Garrett T. Pace. n.d. Patterns of Caregiver Aggressive and Nonaggressive Discipline Toward Young Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Latent Class Approach.”

References

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Grogan-Kaylor (2022, Feb. 16). Interesting and Noteworthy Findings From MICS Analyses. Retrieved from https://agrogan1.github.io/research/MICS

BibTeX citation

@misc{grogan-kaylor2022interesting,
  author = {Grogan-Kaylor, Andy},
  title = {Interesting and Noteworthy Findings From MICS Analyses},
  url = {https://agrogan1.github.io/research/MICS},
  year = {2022}
}